Russian silver coins of 1708 were quite rare in those times. Therefore, the numismatic market today can boast mainly of copper coins of this year - penny, dengoy (0.5 kopecks) and polushka (1/4 kopeck).
However, many Tymfs or Tinfs were excellently preserved - military change coins from the time of the Northern War. Only if in 1707 the Shestaks (0.5 tympha) were used on a par with the Tymphs, then by 1708 the Sesta completely disappeared from everyday life.
On the obverse of the tympha of 1708, the face of Peter I was depicted, and on the reverse there was an engraved symbol of Russian power - an eagle with two heads. Despite the use of coins in the Polish-Lithuanian territories, the legends on the coins were minted in Russian.
For Uzbekistan, 1708 turned out to be quite a coup. The new ruler, Ubaydullakhan, conducted a complex monetary reform. As a result, new silver coins were issued. True, silver in them was 3.5 times less than in existing ones.
The low cost of coins, however, had no effect on their value. Such a monetary reform led not only to the economic decline of the country, but to the emergence of a revolution. Nothing good came out of it. The uprising was suppressed, the price of "cheap" coins (or "tanga") was raised twice, and for a few more decades, these "single" coins caused a persistent aversion to merchants. Taking into account the fact that now both silver coins (35% of the content of precious metals) and tanga (only 9% of silver) took part in the turnover.
For both Russia and Uzbekistan, the year 1708 turned out to be the year of a kind of “economy”. Coins were produced simple, from cheap materials. And served, rather, the usual exchange currency.

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